{"id":43018,"date":"2014-07-14T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43018"},"modified":"2014-07-14T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:17:48","slug":"ex-j-p-morgan-trader-joins-bitcoin-bulls-launching-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/ex-j-p-morgan-trader-joins-bitcoin-bulls-launching-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-J.P. Morgan Trader Joins Bitcoin Bulls Launching Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsWeek &#8211; Daniel Masters, a 50-year-old veteran commodities trader, started working for some of the largest companies in the world right out of university, trading in London, New York and Zug, Switzerland, for JPMorgan Chase and Phibro before moving on to the New York Mercantile Exchange, a short walk from Wall Street. By all appearances, it was your standard Wall Street career.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2008, he moved to a tiny island off the coast of France called Jersey, which this week opened its doors to the island\u2019s first fully regulated Bitcoin hedge fund\u2014run by none other than Masters himself\u2014as part of a push to create a nascent Silicon Valley in the heart of the English Channel, replete with government-funded entrepreneurial hubs and startup accelerators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ex-jp-morgan-trader-joins-bitcoin-bulls-launching-hedge-funds-258494\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsWeek &#8211; Daniel Masters, a 50-year-old veteran commodities trader, started working for some of the largest companies in the world right out of university, trading in London, New York and Zug, Switzerland, for JPMorgan Chase and Phibro before moving on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43019,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}